Avatar - This is what I'm saying

[marni1971]

You'll appreciate I hope I can't go into detail.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Projection on foliage looks stunning, it's all I need.

But I'm like super bummed (is that what the kids say nowadays!?) about the short lenght. I loooooove long boat rides. Pirates, Jungle Cruise, Small World, Living with the Land are amongst my favourite rides, quintessential Disney fare that nobody else can do. El Rio del Tiempo and Maelstrom are cute, but simply lack lenght. I don't need a 'Avatar: Journey into George's Wife's Experience'.

This is the third time DAK misses out on a truly classic boat ride! And the park could use it so much.

 

[MereMickey]

Thanks for your rebutle I know Disney parks have a lot of non branded rides and attractions in their parks. Take expedition Everest for example, it is just a ride created for animal kingdom. It's the parks most popular attraction. Not to put you on the spot but my question to you is say James Cameron never made avatar but instead pitched an idea to imagineering to make a land based on a world he created for a movie that was never produced (avatar being the implied movie). Do you think those that didn't enjoy avatar and don't like it being a land in animal kingdom would have a different opinion about this considering avatar the movie never existed in this hypothetical situation?

Thanks for the response. Good question. I feel you do have a good point in that if it wasn't a movie based expansion, most probably would be more intrigued. I would have to agree with that. Fair point. Most like me are probably jaded with the movie tied with it. Take the movie out of the equations, as you suggested and I believe a different interest in a positive way would have definitely occurred. I get where Disney is going with including it in Animal Kingdom because of the environmental theme, etc. I think it would have been better placed at DHS. The reason being for me I guess is that beyond the film's lesson on ravaging another's planet and taking their natural resources is that the movie is known for the technology and CGI it introduced to the film industry. Now that would have made a cool use of the now defunct Backlot Studio tour.

Reading through the thread and chit chatting with those in here, I can see the appeal more than I did before.

 

[George]

I don't need a 'Avatar: Journey into George's Wife's Experience'.

Well, if that were the ride it would vary substantially in length. The tech would be pretty difficult to pull off.